Latest articles by Diane Lincoln
Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is closer to Earth than we thought
The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought.
313-million-year-old track marks found in Grand Canyon
The 313-million-year-old tracks were left by a tetrapod.
Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here's what they found.
A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling.
Dogs may sense Earth's magnetic field and use it like a compass
Some hunting dogs may be able to sense Earth's magnetic field and use it as a compass, scientists are now reporting.
Rare ghostly particles produced inside the sun just detected under a mountain in Italy
For the first time ever, physicists have spotted rare, ghostly particles, called CNO solar neutrinos, produced by a weird kind of fusion inside the sun.
Scientists create a pattern so complicated it's impossible to duplicate
Scientists just created a pattern that, according to researchers, is impossible to duplicate or forge, a feat that could quash counterfeiters.
Rare quadruplet 'top quarks' created at world's largest atom smasher
The world's largest atom smasher has "given birth" to a set of four ultraheavy particles — called top quarks.
Here's how plants became meat eaters
Carnivorous plants began evolving about 70 million years ago, when an ancestor duplicated its entire genome, allowing some genes to be repurposed for hunting.
